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    Maybe this is just what we needed

    I kept busy this weekend with canning. The store had some produce on sale, so I came home with ingredients to make strawberry lemon jam, more sriracha peach sauce, apples for applesauce, cider for a mustard glaze (need to find the mustard seed in bulk, first), and got to work.…

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    And now I’m 32.

    Today I turned 32. I feel older than that. I probably look older than that, to be honest. I have more gray hairs than I imagined I’d have at 32, and it gets worse by the week, and sometimes I worry I look like I’m mid 30s going on 60.…

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    Atwood, finished.

    Well, it’s done! It was all finished before the end of December, so it still counts as a holiday gift. All in all, knitting a sweater for the husband wasn’t a horrible undertaking, but in the future I’ll definitely choose my patterns a bit differently. Preferably the top-down variety that…

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    So close

    After a long, emotionally exhausting week I can officially say that we are near the end of the husband’s Christmas sweater. I spent several hours on the road, going back and forth between home and the funeral home, and managed to get the bulk of the 2nd sleeve knit (don’t…

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    The Mesa dress

    Handmade wardrobe item number… I don’t even remember. This is the Mesa dress I think I wrote about earlier this summer. I finished it a few weeks ago but couldn’t quite get the courage up to wear it until today. It felt, to me, like it looked handmade – my set…